In a video that has presently gone viral, ‘Twilight’ star Rachelle Lefevre is seen accusing Target of “trying to erase” LGBTQ people after it removed its “PRIDE” collection originally displayed in the front of its stores. The decision was taken by Target following backlash from conservatives.

She said that Target gave her 7-year-old nonbinary son a false sense of acceptance after witnessing the front-of-store Pride Month display. As a result, she said that Target engaged in “performative allyship.”

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“I came in here two days ago and my 7-year-old, who’s nonbinary, saw it and said, ‘Look, Mom, it’s pride Look, they’re going to celebrate me,’” the Canadian actress said in an Instagram post as she fought back tears. “I can’t bring them here anymore, at least for the entire month of June, because if they walk in, and all the other people who walk in and go, ‘Where’d it go?’ are going to realize that they are being successful in trying to erase them. We’re not supposed to negotiate with terrorists.”

However, her opinion against Target was met with its share of criticism on social media. A number of conservative users slammed her for raising her child as non-binary at the age of seven. Here are some of the reactions to her video:

Who is Rachelle Lefevre?

Rachelle Lefevre was born on February 1, 1979, born in Montreal, Quebec. Lefevre attended Centennial Academy and later studied creative arts at Dawson College. She studied theater for two summers at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts. She then pursued a degree in education and literature at McGill University.

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She worked as a waitress at a sushi bar in Westmount, when a Canadian television producer overheard Lefevre telling the hostess that she wanted to be an actress. The producer got Lefevre her first audition, for a role in the sitcom Student Bodies. She didn’t land the part but got a call back from the casting director. She ended up landing a role in the Canadian TV series Big Wolf on Campus in 1999, playing the character of Stacey Hanson.

She also had recurring roles in What About Brian, Boston Legal, and Swingtown. She played the vampire Victoria in the first two films of the Twilight saga. In 2011, she starred in Off the Map, followed by the CBS series A Gifted Man (2011–2012) and Under the Dome (2013–2015).